A molecular biomarker for disruption of crustacean molting: The N-acetyl-β-glucosaminidase mRNA in the epidermis of the fiddler crab

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 554-558

  Meng, Yanling ^a   Zou, Enmin ^a  

^a NICHOLLS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Endocrine disruption; N acetyl glucosaminidase; Uca pugilator

Indexed keywords

CHITINOLYTIC ENZYMES; ECDYSTEROID SIGNALING; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTION; MOLECULAR BIOMARKERS; MOLTING HORMONES; PERSISTENT CHEMICALS; UCA PUGILATOR;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

TRANSCRIPTION;

ACETYLGLUCOSAMINIDASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRACHYURA; ECDYSTERONE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLTING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CELUCA PUGILATOR; CRUSTACEA; OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 62949222420     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: 14320800     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00128-009-9644-5     Document Type: Article

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